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Navigation between Projects

To navigate between Projects you can use "Project Arrows" or a "Next Project Link".

Which Project is next or previous depends on the order of your projects in the project overview in your admin panel. You can drag and drop the projects there to change the order.

Just drag and drop a project in the overview

In Lay Options you can choose whether next/previous project links navigate through all projects or only projects of the same category.

Next and previous project link order setting

Project Arrows

"Project Arrows" are fixed, clickable buttons on the left and right to navigate to previous and next projects.

Activate Arrows in projects for navigation (Project Arrows) in Lay Options. Project Arrows show up inside a project when the current project has a previous or next project.

Activate Project Arrows in Lay Options

Customize your arrow's appearance. Go to "Customize", then navigate to a Project in your website. A panel "Project Arrows" appears where you have a lot of customization options. A project arrow can be an icon, text, custom image or a project thumbnail. You can also set the project arrow's position to top, center or bottom.

Project Arrows panel in the Customizer

Open the Project Arrows panel in the Customizer while previewing a project.

Dynamic project titles

You can set your project arrow to be of type "text". Then use $nextprojecttitle$ in the next text or $previousprojecttitle$ in the previous text. On the frontend, Lay Theme replaces the placeholder with the actual title of the next or previous project.

This is a good alternative to "Project Arrows". In a textfield, select a word and click the "→ Insert next project link" button or the "← Insert previous project link" button.

This "Next Project Link" will have the style of "Links in Texts" that you can set in "Customize" → "Links in Texts".

You can use the Footer feature in combination with a "Next Project Link" to have this link underneath all of your projects.

Dynamic project titles

The link text can contain $nextprojecttitle$ or $previousprojecttitle$. Lay Theme replaces these placeholders with the actual title on the frontend. For example, a link text like Next: $nextprojecttitle$ becomes Next: Project Title.

The same placeholders are also used by News and Deck navigation. The placeholder names still say "project" for historical reasons, but they are replaced with the next or previous News or Deck title there too.

See Dynamic Text Placeholders for the full placeholder reference.

You can also create a project footer that contains a Thumbnail Grid. This is useful when visitors should jump from one project to several other projects instead of only going to the next or previous one. Add the Thumbnail Grid to the footer layout and use the footer for your projects.